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READING: The reclusive "Lemony Snicket" (known to grown-ups and non-believers as Daniel Handler) will be showing up - hopefully in a cloak and mustache disguise! - at Barnes and Noble tonight to celebrate the release of The

Happy Cinco de Mayo...while you're not eating guacamole, sipping on frozen margs and taking a whack at a Sparks filled pinata...you may want to do one of the following this weekend:

"There will be a standby line on the night of the shows and people will be admitted on a first come, first-served basis as seats become available." That's what Wall Street Rising's website says about the next seven days of sold out free shows happening at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Count on some of those people who got their free tickets a month ago not showing up and get there early tonight for the Cat Power show. Hopefully she'll preview some of her dreamy new material. Grammy award-winning blues and gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama share the bill.

There's this print only article in the business section of the NY Times about how promoters tried to bring audiences to the Moscow Cats Theatre at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. HHC Marketing decided to target "veterinarians not as mere ringworm treaters, but as cultural power brokers," sending over fifty select Manhattan vets free tickets and fliers to start the word of mouth, not to mention sending tickets to pediatricians. This must be why when Gothamist attempted to order tickets, most of the shows were sold out! Luckily, we persisted and will be seeing the third to last performance on October 29, right next to the kids and their parents (we'll be the big kids); we are, of course, concerned that the cats will be tired. Anyway, in rethinking the paradigm of getting the words out about performing cats for next year, might we suggest that HHC Marketing consider getting the word out to bloggers?

For more on great things to do in the city, Gothamist Arts & Events. And last year, RESFEST had a program of Spike Jonze's work.

There are times when watching MTV, VH1, BET or even that new upstart FUSE that Gothamist wishes we could just by pass all of the bling and booty for some videos with artistic merit. RES magazine hears our plaintive sighs and every year brings the best of digital media showcased in their magazine to theatrical establishments around the country with RESFEST, the digital film festival.